It was said of Charles George Dennison that he had seen more active service than any other man in southern Africa's 19th-century colonial wars. Born in Cape Colony in 1844, he was an eminent British soldier cast from a mold of bitter experience and a frontiersman equal to any legendary figure of the American West. Over 50 years, Dennison fought Afrikaners, Dutchmen, Voortrekkers, and the Boers, as well as the Xhosa, the Basutos, the Transvaal paBedi, and the amaZulu warriors of King Cetshwayo, and rose from a rough trooper to become a distinguished major whose advice was sought by men like Lord Kitchener and Garnet Wolseley. This book is an unabridged restoration of Dennison's classic though heavily expurgated 1904 memoir A Fight to the Finish.